The trees, which are over 6000 years old, have withstood a whole lot in their history including severe exploitation, climate changes and governments which, quite simply, don’t give a rat’s ass about such a thing

President Bashar al-Assad today freed 2,130 of his tens of thousands of detainees, including 76 Syrian women, to win the release of 48 Iranian Revolutionary Guards captured by the Free Syrian Army in Damascus last August.